, 1887-03-16
The Attempted Assassination.

ST. PETERSBURG. March l5.-It is
semi officially stated hat on Sunday the
police were informed that an attempt
might be made on the life of the car that
day, it being the anniversary of the assas-
s~ination of his father. As a result the
police arrested near the imperial palace
several persons discovered holding dyna-
mite bombs in their hands ready to throw
at the car as he emerged.
PARIS, March Is. -~lntranagant, Henri
Rochefort's paper, states that several
persons have been arrested at st. Peters
burg on a charge Of engaging in a conspi-
racy against the life of the car last Sun
day. The paper adds that as the car
was passing along a ~thoroughfare on his
way to attend the services in commemora-
ton of the death of his father, a bomb
was thrown at him, but for some reason it
failed to explode, and that the persons
arrested were concerned in the assassina-
ton plot.
LONDON, March 1.-The Russian en-
bassy here refuse to-day to give n infor-
nation respecting the truth or falsity of
the report that an attempt on the cars
life was made last Sunday in st. Peters
burg.
LONDON, March ia dispatch from
st. Petersburg to the Daily News says:
While the car was returning from re-
QUEEN services in the cathedral of St.
Peter and St. Paul, a bomb attached to a
cord was thrown in his direction. The in
tention was to tighten the string which
was connected with the mechanism and
thus explode the bomb, but before it
could be executed the criminal and a sus-
pected accomplice was seized. The police
visited their house and discovered there a
quantity Of explosives and a number Of
revolutionary pamphlets.
Over 200 persons have already been ar
rested in connection with the affair, and
domiciliary visits are being made through
out the city. The German police had
warned the Russian authorities that an at
tempt was to be made against the cars
life, but the latter failed to trace the plot
tiers.
A telegram from Vienna confirms the
Neus' dispatch, and says hat the bomb
was thrown under the cars carriage and
that it was shaped like a book SO that it
could be carried in the hand without ex-
citing suspicion.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the
Standard says that ore OF the six stu
dents arrested in connection with the plot,
carried a hollow book containing a bottle
filed with dynamite and poisoned bullets.
Others had parcels and bags containing
bombs. The dispatch also says it is al
legged that a woman was arrested who had
a bomb concealed in her muf.
The car cried on hearing the danger
which he bad escaped. He did not learn
the pa. ,eszlars until he arrived at Cats
china palace.
The persons arrested in connection with
the constitutional plot Indignantly deny
that they are in any way connected with
the outrage, and rcpudiate any idea of
conspiracy. Their motto is, they say:
The people, with the car or against the
car" They have published photographic
periodicals composed manly of extracts
from the works of notable writers on con-
stitutional law and political economy. The
statutes of the society obliged all members
to join at a signal of their chief in doing
their utmost to subvert the existing gov
eminent and establish a constitutional
government.